 | James Payn - 1859 - 464 pàgines
...enterprise. Mr. Cardan Bracket, with the tears in his eyes, began to quote from the " In Memoriam," " Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, and grasps the skirts of happy chance," but there interrupted himself with, " it wasn't altogether chance, I hope, however, old boy ; let us... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1860 - 432 pàgines
...from the same class of incident, is the following:— " Dost thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began...grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known, And lives... | |
 | 1861 - 594 pàgines
...up, and, above all, what labours ! How the poet wakes our sympathies for the man " Who breaks liis birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstanceAnd grapples with his evil star" ! And yet, in the midst of the labour, he recalls... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pàgines
...of thine orbit round A higher height, a deeper deep. DOST thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known, And lives... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pàgines
...thine orbit round A higher height, a deeper deep. LXIII. DOST thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known, And lives... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1861 - 600 pàgines
...conjure up, and, above all, what labours ! How the poet wakes our sympathies for the man " Who breaks Ms birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance And grapples with his evil star"! And A'et, in the midst of the labour, he recalls... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1862 - 698 pàgines
...of thine orbit round A higher height, a deeper deep. DOST thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known, And lives... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 512 pàgines
...vigour of hostility and sharpness of opposition." Mr. Tennyson has drawn a vivid picture of the man, — Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star : Who makes by force his merit known, And lives... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - 1862 - 398 pàgines
...Light, the rosyfinger'd Morn,' stirs over yonder, — an I mistake not." CHAPTER V. THE COMMONWEALTH. Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known, And lives... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1863 - 516 pàgines
...thine orbit round A higher height, a deeper deep. ucn. DOST tliou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began,...grasps the skirts of happy. chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, , And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known, And... | |
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Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,... 
